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Chinese Religious Art
By Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky
Lanham: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2013
394 Pages, ISBN: 978-0739180594, Paperback
Reviewed by Benita Stambler
It seems hard to believe that there has not been a volume prior to this one devoted to Chinese religious art, but this work by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky is the first comprehensive volume on the subject. It thus fills an important gap in literature on Asian art by providing a less- familiar lens for examining dynastic art. In this book, the Tang Dynasty, instead of being characterized by its frequent artistic symbols, tricolor horses and polo-playing women, is analyzed through objects such as Daoist and Buddhist carvings found in caves.
General books on Chinese art have been organized by different principles: dynasty, materials (jade, ceramics), purpose (trade, ritual, domestic), location (tomb, temple), etc. This text is organized first with a section on early Chinese art from the Neolithic period through the Shang Dynasty (c. 1600–1050 BCE), ending with the Qin Dynasty (221–210 BCE). At this early time, the three major religious traditions that took hold in China—Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism—were not yet fully formed. It is argued, however, that this period was critical for the development of principles, practices, and iconography that were later incorporated into the major religious canons.
Following this initial part, the book is divided into sections on the art of each of these three major religions, followed by a brief conclusion. There is also a bibliography organized along the same lines. Within the three major parts, the information is organized chronologically, each ending with a chapter on temples, making it possible to easily follow any religious strand from its beginnings through subsequent changes and development.
A somewhat-broad view of what constitutes religious art is included partly because Confucianism in its early years had a limited pantheon, eventually becoming the de facto state ideology across dynasties. The principles of Confucianism produced less in the way of material objects, as its religious and moral ideals, including filial piety, did not initially require much in the way of implements, statues, and deities beyond Confucius himself. Since texts were primary, Confucian art played a more limited role in practice when compared to the other religious traditions, although examples of narratives in stone are provided.
While the concepts of Daoism existed throughout Chinese dynastic history, Karetzky explains that, in certain periods, its expression did not always resemble our preconceptions regarding religious art. During times of upheaval, some Daoist literati removed themselves from the world of politics and retreated to reclusive communities. Included here is an image of a rubbing titled "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove," dated from the fifth century but based on third-century individuals illustrating these men living their principles by relaxing under trees, focusing their energies on what we now refer to as "personal development." This strays from our usual ideas of traditional religious iconography, but is a subject that recurs in Ming Dynasty art—obviously a resonating theme.
When Buddhism arrived in China from India along the Silk Roads, certain aspects had to be adapted in order to appeal to a population steeped in Confucian principles. Karetzky clearly lays out the three stages of the transformation of Buddhist religious art in China from early examples, showing strong foreign influences to much more indigenized styles, then to the incorporation of foreign characteristics, again due to increased interactions across cultures. The chapter on Buddhist art in the Northern Song to Qing Dynasties delineates stylistic differences from the previous Tang Dynasty, with the Northern Song having a more naturalistic approach to portraying deities.
One of the issues with separating information by religious tradition is that it may complicate gaining a clear idea of the ebb and flow of the various religious currents swirling through China, as well as the artistic styles (materials, artistic conventions, aesthetics, etc.) prevalent at any given time. Since there is no overall timeline, the book's division into periods might be unclear to readers with limited knowledge of China's dynastic cycles. The periodization of the sections is somewhat inconsistent, making comparisons across religions challenging. For example, chapter 6, in the Confucian section on the medieval period, labels the chapter "Six Dynasties to Song Dynasty (220–1279)." In the Daoist section, the medieval period subtitle is "Tang and Song Dynasties (618–1279)," although more than a third of this chapter is devoted to the pre-Tang period (for a further discussion of the applicability of the term "medieval" to China, see Keith N. Knapp's "Did the Middle Kingdom Have a Middle Period? The Problem of 'Medieval' in China's History," Education About Asia 12, no. 3 [2007]: 12–17).
In contrast to the periodization for the other religions, the chapter on early Buddhist art encompasses the medieval period (including a portion of the Six Dynasties), from 420 to 750, while the Tang Dynasty (618–907) is considered separately in its own chapter, without reference to any specifically medieval characteristics. This lack of uniformity in the divisions across the three sections, and thus the three religions, does not provide a strong structure for a comparative chronological framework.
For students and others new to this study, it would have been helpful for the author to step back slightly to suggest how to look at Chinese religious art and what to look for. This could include more information on styles that crossed religious boundaries. Generalizations would be preferable to detail about the original locations of objects. For example, in discussing Neolithic cultures to examine the origins of religious practices, Karetzky states, "Jade bi were also found in great numbers in Liangzhu graves: for example, Tomb M20 has over forty, and Tomb T23 has nearly three dozen" (19–20). While this type of information could be useful for some scholars, it doesn't enhance understanding for more general readers. Instead, additional statements regarding the interaction of the streams of religious art would help clarify their connections, similar to this example: "Scholars often acknowledge the influence of Buddhist ideas of universal salvation or Confucian ethical and moral practices on Daoism during this era [early medieval], and such observations attest to the fact that the boundaries between the different ways of thought were often quite fluid" (174).
No matter how well an art book is written, it could be argued that its most enticing aspect is the illustrations. Such an opinion would hamper the appreciation of the finer qualities of this work. Obviously, a lot of scholarship went into this text, but it remains unsupported by its illustrations, which are particularly integral to books on art. The problem is not only that all the illustrations are black and white, but many included here have a somewhat-muddied appearance lacking contrast and clarity. This makes it difficult to see their details and therefore understand their importance. Additionally, there are no references in the text to the illustration numbers (unless the illustration is located in a different chapter), so matching the description of an object with its image may take some effort.
This work provides an admirably broad and deep range of information on Chinese religious art organized into a single volume, with many sources and sites included. Its organizational structure would lend itself to courses arranged to address an artistic tradition of a particular religion, but would be somewhat less easily adaptable for a more general survey class organized according to a straight chronological approach. Additionally, the information provided would need to be supplemented by clear images of illustrative objects. However, this should not be a problem, given the rich availability of imagery from many sources.
BENITA STAMBLER is the Asian Art Coordinator for The Ringling Museum of Art. For sixteen years, she taught courses on Asia at Empire State College, State University of New York.
Benita Stambler
Published Fall 2016
Volume Volume 21:2 (Fall 2016): Sports, Culture, and Asia
Category Book Review, Resources
Academic field(s) Art, Art History, Religion
Region China and Inner Asia


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Advanced Societies: Their Sense of Guilt and External Foes
From the desk of George Handlery on Sun, 2007-08-26 11:03
The reader could never guess it: this writer was recruited to cover the central and eastern part of Europe. Therefore, it might seem odd that the author regularly dissects another topic. The motive is the frightening crumble of the resolve to prevail of economically advanced and politically democratic entities that were, when the geographic term still applied, referred to as the "West".
It is warranted to concentrate on the politically-economically advanced communities and their relationship to the state-based or supranational forces that plot their destruction. Whether the forces of oppression – once represented by the Nazis, more recently by the Communists and currently personified by radical Islamists- prevail, does not primarily depend of the strength of the radicals. The ongoing game is not theirs to win but ours to lose. Normally this would be good news. In this case it is not necessarily the case.
The decisive front is not Iraq, Afghanistan and whatever new venue will emerge after failing by choice on these fields of battle. Regarding this struggle the determining factor is not the inadequacy of means. Much rather it is the lack of wanting to prevail, often even a preference to lose, that is decisive.
It is the hither success of modernized societies that convinces their home front that virtue is to served by consenting to, or even causing, their defeat. This inclination is the upshot of the ignorance of a generation of the "inheritors" that populate successful societies. The confusion pertains to what makes communities successful or into failures. The post-war generation left behind humming enterprises but no understanding for how its "economic miracle" (frankly, it was not miracle, for its was man-made) came about. Once the roots of achievement are not understood the causes of failure, too, become fuzzy. Therefore, the confused will be quick to believe that – paraphrasing the slogan: property is theft – success is the result of exploitation and, at best, of luck. Accordingly, poverty mutes into the result of the misfortune of having encountered successful societies and succumbing to their deviousness. The explanation, albeit irrational, has rationally predictable consequences.
Once the erroneous thesis that success is caused by exploitation is accepted, the successful do not serve as an example to emulate to overcome misery, but the cause of the laggards' failure. Thus the achievers become evil and the failures wind up with a halo of virtue. The tort explaining divergent performances demands compensation. This takes the form of transfer payments representing atonement, and also political concessions to those whose ancestors were the past's victims. It is part of the logic of the foregoing that such "demands" are legitimized not by their logical merits and equity but by whatever passes as past suffering and sins.
Once the welfare of successful societies is deprived of legitimate origins then, underdevelopment emerges divorced from its causes and becomes a consequence of past actions that demand atonement now. Thereby a less moralistic but simpler explanation is overlooked. Poverty and wealth have lawful origins. These go back to the gamut of individual decisions shaping the value-system that determines the shape of economic and political forms that can be filled. This makes economic success and its political order the reflection of man-made decisions that involve the consent of the participants.
Tradition and experience explains the attitudes that flow into the process that shapes social responses to perceived problems. However, such forces are not absolute determinants. A critical factor that makes a society successful is its ability to break inherited molds. At one time we were all hunters and gatherers. Some of us have yet to rise beyond that level. Lasting collective wealth is created by the will to pursue happiness and by skillfully using the culture's laws and customs that set the initial limits to our striving.
Being wrong about the causes of development and stagnation, if skillfully presented, might secure juicy grants to eloquent claimants. By such incantations the successful can be put into a state of permanent guilt. The ensuing donations will create a we-feel-good-about-ourselves feeling. So do wellness resorts that, for a bundle of money, put customers on a starvation diet to mitigate the consequences of indulgences that will be resumed. The real victims of the process of sin-guilt-penance-absolution are the supposed beneficiaries of the redistributive ritual. Those whose role in the charade is to pay up enjoy the satisfaction of having paid their fine. The elites who take hold of the money squat on the top of a moral totem pole and enjoy the good life. Meanwhile the victim-beneficiaries that are led by the former get less than nothing. Their dictatorial governors are strengthened and their tottering system is maintained through the inflow of funds that mask mismanagement. Rising out of misery to the level of potential implies being able to copy creatively, that is, to be good cultural learners. However, those caught in the above process are deprived of the benefit of innovative learning by being told that those to be emulated are thieves that owe everything to their victims. With that there is nothing left to be learned from the ones who had helped themselves. Add to this the usual assurance that the laggards' ways are, while quantitatively lesser, of a higher moral quality, and the chance for progress is stifled. Being a continuation of a virtuous past, the present emerges as a future anchored in a higher morality that enshrines an otherwise unacceptable status quo.
The greatest danger to developed societies in not the burden of financing a mistaken approach to development and doing so for the wrong reason in favor of pre-democratic systems of communalist scarcity. The apologetic reflex extorts the greatest price in the political arena. There it undercuts the will and thereby the ability to defend successful societies in the struggle with Islamic fundamentalism.
Let it be reiterated: achievement is not accidental but lawful and it is not the consequence of robbery but of able inputs made in the context of man-made political and social institutions. The fact that the basic techniques that radiated out of the west of Europe have, after creative adaptation, continue to raise scores of millions out of poverty, prove the point. If the developed world wishes to help the masses stuck in deprivation, it needs to transfer to them its wealth-creating techniques and not money.
In the political arena, too, not knee bending before authoritarian elites but rather the assertion of result-brining methods is called for. Above all, the relativists (whether their motive is decadence, cowardice, guilt, or ignorance) must be reminded that there is not only much to defend here but that there is also something that deserves to be protected. If this insight is internalized then the cause of preserving freedom will have won more than what dozens of divisions could have achieved.
Submitted by Bob Doney on Mon, 2007-08-27 10:37.
So the economic success of the "West" owes nothing to exploitation and theft? There have been some pretty silly articles on BJ, but this is one of the silliest.
And do stop using Google translation tools, George, or whatever it is that's mangling your English. Keep it simple, mate, then we can all understand what you're saying.
@ Flanders Fields
Submitted by Mission Impossible on Mon, 2007-08-27 09:49.
Top "Capitalists" have abandoned capital accumulation in favor of power accumulation and control of global marketing.
Indeed they have. The reason(s) -- becoming clearer with every passing month -- appears to be 'they' have been 'Judaiophied.' Study the Weimar Republic. They (you know who I mean) are making a second attempt in Europe. The first one was stopped by Adolph Hitler.
Very controversial proposition I know, but as they say on Planet Enlightenment ... facts are facts.
Ooer. Something very nasty has crawled out from under a rock. Do stamp on it, someone.
Incentives Properly Applied?
Submitted by Flanders Fields on Mon, 2007-08-27 09:27.
"...it is the lack of wanting to prevail, often even a preference to lose, that is decisive.
It is the hither success of modernized societies that convinces their home front that virtue is to served by consenting to, or even causing, their defeat."
Addressing the first point, the preference to lose seems to prevail, especially within the political and leadership classes within our communities. On "lower levels" (ie. the grassroots), it is more due to confusion and reluctant acceptance, with pockets of informed resistance which are controlled by societal leadership. Pressure is exerted against resisting groups and individuals while gradual immersion leading to acceptance is applied to Western societies in general.
On the second point, "that virtue is to {be} served by consenting to, or even causing, their defeat", is not due to the success of modernized society, but is due, in part, to societies self-enslavement to the materialistic demand created within them. Secondly, disincentives have been built into society which penalize individual action to resist. These result from planned obsolescence built into free capitalist systems, much as is done into other products.
Top "Capitalists" have abandoned capital accumulation in favor of power accumulation and control of global marketing. Corporatists have switched to resource control and social engineering as avenues to long-term profit (for themselves only). Tried and proven techniques of marketing, utilizing puffery of grand schemes along with gradual, persistent pressure in ways ranging from low-key to hard sell, are applied within our societies.
The mistakes are those of the Corporatist class, who view Islamacists as being subject to their methods because everyone else has been. They have counted on all being subject to economic incentives "properly" applied. It is the mistakes of the Corporatist class which are the biggest danger to all of us, and it could be the source of their fatality, too. Collective wealth of Western societies, in values and traditions, as well as economically, are sacrificed to apply those incentives while more "end diplomacy" methods are applied elsewhere. Success on the Corporatist levels will not translate into success for the people of Western societies, even if their strategy prevails.
My objection is not to capitalism. It is to the socialism which has come to dominate the capitalist class. When it dominates there, it will dominate all of us. We are all placed in danger by economic theory which discounts the inability of cultists to respond to practices which may be in their self-interest. It makes our societies unable to respond for their own safety and protection.
Very Fine Article
George Handlery ... good job!
Your final three paragraphs are of special merit.
The final two ... superb.

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US, UK and Norway condemn ongoing clashes in Darfur danger zone
June 19 - 2018 LONDON / NEW YORK / OSLO
Newly displaced people have been sheltering from the fighting between the Sudanese army and armed opposition in caves in Darfur's Jebel Marra, without access to aid (RD)
The Troika country members condemn the ongoing clashes between the SLM-AW rebels and Sudan's army and militias in the Jebel Marra region. It "has led to the burning down of villages, causing high numbers of civilian injury and death, and the displacement of nearly 9,000 people."
Norway, the United Kingdom and the United States released a statement today, saying that the civilian population in Darfur's Jebel Marra "continues to bear the brunt of this unnecessary violence.
"It is unacceptable that the government of Sudan has repeatedly prevented the African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (Unamid) and humanitarian actors from accessing the areas of conflict and displaced populations. The Troika strongly urges the government of Sudan to immediately provide unfettered access to both Unamid and humanitarian actors."
The Troika adds that both the inaction of the Sudan Liberation Movement led by Abdelwahid El Nur (SLM-AW) and Khartoum in stopping the violence undermines "efforts to achieve a peaceful solution to the conflict".
The SLM-AW has been reluctant to engage in any Darfur and Sudan peace processes, which "obstructs the achievement of sustainable peace in Darfur and unnecessarily prolongs civilian suffering".
"The international community should consider imposing sanctions against those who continue to act as spoilers."
Khartoum's actions in military operations also undermines efforts to achieve a peaceful solution to the conflict, the Troika said.
"There can be no military solution to the conflict in Darfur and the international community should consider imposing sanctions against those who continue to act as spoilers."
The Troika calls on all parties to the conflict to immediately cease all military engagement and hostilities, allow unfettered humanitarian access, and to meaningfully engage with the African Union High-level Implementation Panel (AUHIP) led peace process in order to reach a permanent ceasefire.
Shelter in caves
The statement comes a day after Radio Dabanga published video and photos of of people who have been newly displaced in Jebel Marra. Together with tens of thousands of other people, they have been forced to flee their homes in eastern and southern Jebel Marra in the past four months. An activist interviewed displaced families living in the open in south-east Jebel Marra.
Since early March, Sudanese army troops and allied paramilitaries are attempting to eliminate the last strongholds of the Sudan Liberation Movement under the leadership of Abdelwahid El Nur in the mountainous region.
An unknown number of villages in the area of Feina, Libei, Sawani, Katur, and Sabun El Fagur were plundered and set on fire. In early April, activists told Radio Dabanga that an estimated 50,000 people fled the fighting and militia attacks on their villages.
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September 6 - 2018
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August 9 - 2018
High-level British delegation visits North Darfur
July 18 - 2018
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Dear readers, Ashvamegh welcomes you to its launch issue back in February 2015. We are very happy to bring our debut issue in online version for your readership. Please find below the editorial and issue navigation below it. We hope you will enjoy the issue with writings by the selected authors and poets. You can also download this issue for your readership in pdf version.
During the selection of a suitable title for our international journal, the term that flashed all of a sudden on the desk was – 'Ashvamegh'. We thought over it for some time, and finally I marked the term final. For our friends who are not familiar with this word, I will discuss it in detail. The term 'Ashvamegh' is a Sanskrit word and it means 'winged horse' in English. This term is associated with a Yajna often discussed in the classic/epic Indian texts. According to the custom, after a king performed Yajna (an ancient as well current day ritual performed near sacrificial fire/havan kund), a horse was set off with a message that whoever would try to stop the horse, would have to battle the king. The distance that horse travelled successfully, as much of territory was marked in the name of the king. However, in most of the cases, no one dared to stop it as only the brave kings used to do Ashvamegh Yajna. As brave as Lord Rama, the brave Mahabharata warrior Arjuna also performed this Ashvamegh Yajna! Thus, we find the 'Ashvamegh' (winged horse) almost invincible!
Our motive behind this journal is almost the same as of the Ashvamegh Yajna; that is why we have named our journal after it. Literature is the essence of world. We cannot imagine a country prospering which has not the heritage of a great literature! I am proud to belong to a nation, which has taught the world many things! Nations must have proud of their literature. It is only literature that presents challenges and inspires us to pursue them. With these thoughts in mind, we thought of doing something for the cause of literature. We all know that other than web, no platform today is easily able to convey our message to the masses. We also selected this medium and our plan of an online international journal came into existence at www.ashvamegh.net!
Now that the winged horse of our ambition has started its journey, never to be caught or stopped, we hope that most of people know about the importance of literature. Only in the pages of literature can we have our respite when we are frustrated with the tedium of this fast moving world. Our mission is to spread the best literature to the maximum number of people.
We have decided to produce every month a compilation of the best literature we receive from around the world. Our platform will showcase poems, short stories, articles and research papers we receive from our visitors and scholars. We welcome everyone to come and join us in our venture to spread and propagate the art of conveying the constructive message to the masses… and thus, to promote our beloved – literature!
We hope and do believe that we will get support from the readers and writers. We are new to the venture. However, we know that we have the great opportunity to be with the masters of the field! I personally thank the team working with us – the members who have joined us from every corner of the world to make this effort a concrete reality of being called an international journal in real sense! We look forward to them to support and guidance in our effort.
At last, I would like to dedicate this first volume of our journal Ashvamegh to those who have been killed recently in an insane attack on the freedom of pen – the Charlie Hebdo team! May their soul remain in peace! Let us keep their mission alive; let our pens talk free the truth with bold and clear voices always!
I have my own interpretations of 'time… then and now'. I would like to share it with you all and wish you all a happy reading season here!


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Home News Come home to Mass says Archbishop Fisher
Come home to Mass says Archbishop Fisher
Marilyn Rodrigues
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at his 2014 consecration as Archbishop of Sydney. The archdiocese is on the threshold of "personal and community renewal" as pandemic restrictions are lifted and his mission plan is launched on 12 December. PHOTO: Giovanni Portelli
Pandemic dispensation is lifted in lead up to Christmas
In a joyful new pastoral message Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has called for Catholics across the Archdiocese of Sydney to "come home" to their churches and lifted the dispensation from the obligation to worship at Mass on Sundays as well as the feasts of Christmas and the Assumption of Mary.
The two-page letter released on 9 December is the archbishop's eighth one relating to the coronavirus pandemic this year. It comes with new liturgical directives in line with the NSW Government's easing of restrictions upon places and activities of worship to the two-square-metre rule for both indoor and outdoor Masses.
"In light of the significant easing of the restrictions upon church attendance, I rescind my decree of 20 March 2020 dispensing the faithful of Sydney from the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and the Holy Days of Christmas and the Assumption," the archbishop wrote.
"Under canon 1247 attendance at Mass on those days is now obligatory once again. Of course, we want people to come to Mass out of love more than obedience, but love itself brings responsibilities."
Prayers in time of a pandemic
Archbishop Fisher added that the elderly, those with health conditions or who "are otherwise anxious about the risks of COVID-19" are still free to remain at home and find another way of keeping holy the Sunday Sabbath.
"If people find they cannot get in to a particular Mass, they should regard their attempt as satisfying the obligation," he said.
"But most of our faithful have many options for Mass and it will be rare that someone can't get in: with greater capacity, additional Masses, pre-registering and other measures, almost everyone should be able to be accommodated. Our priests are looking at a mix of in-church, in-bigger-hall and outdoor Masses to accommodate the Christmas crowds."
The archbishop described the closures of churches earlier this year, followed by severe and then lessened restrictions as a "pandemic-enforced retreat". It had been an opportunity to connect more deeply with family and God, while many maintained their connection to Mass and parish through live-streaming.
"But we rightly miss the experience of community at Mass, our union with family, friends, neighbours and fellow parishioners in Christ's mystical body the Church," he said. "It's been very isolating for many of us. As your bishop and on behalf of your priests may I say: we've missed you!"
Time is ripe for new archdiocesan mission plan
The archbishop also noted that by "happy providence" the archdiocese will launch its mission plan Go Make Disciples, which has been several years in the making, on 12 December.
"As things have turned out, it will be our COVID recovery plan as well," he wrote. "It is all about personal and community renewal, so that we can be the kind of missionary disciples and welcoming communities needed for the new normal."
In coming back to Church, he added, "we are returning to God's house and ours, the entrance hall to our eternal home".
"But through the renewal ahead in Go Make Disciples, it should be more evident than ever. We want to make ourselves and our communities sites of encounter with God, where people will find their spiritual home."
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If each square has a side length of 1, what is the area of the blue trapezoid?
Note: A trapezoid has at least a pair of parallel sides. It is also known as a trapezium in the UK.
Given that all the circles have equal radius of 10 cm, what is the area of the shaded blue part?
In this grid, each rectangle is labelled with its area. What area should replace the question mark?
In the above figure, which shaded area is larger?
The small circles all have the same size.


Why do birds sing? Such a simple question but as I've mulled over this query, the answer doesn't seem as obvious as I thought it would be. (Lest you wonder what other odd topics my mind seems to pursue, this one was prompted by a small poster that's been hanging above my desk for several years).
This little piece of light cardboard, printed with a photo of a bird in song, is enhanced with these words: "A bird does not sing because it has an answer but because it has a song." (Chinese Proverb) I'd become so used to seeing those words in front of me, I'd almost forgotten them. This week, however, they took on new and inspirational meaning.


In 1947, on the advice of his son Roland Petit, Madame Rose Repetto installs a tiny workshop of ballet slippers at 22, rue de la Paix's throw from the Paris National Opera. Using techniques and adapted products, the success was immediate. In 1956, Brigitte Bardot opens door to the shop with an idea in mind: to find a shoe as light as the ballet ones she was wearing, but much more flattering and feminine. Madame Repetto creates an unprecedented ballerina, according to a technique directly inspired by ballet slippers mounting: the back sewn. Thus, the first Repetto ballerina was born, immediately synonymous with elegance and lightness. Today, Repetto stands out as a true international luxury French house and broadcasts its universe and the quality of its expertise on a large range of products, in ever more fascinating and exclusive boutiques.
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A global lineup of top young sailors from 16 countries and five continents will face off in the second-ever Red Bull Foiling Generation World Final this week on November 9-11 in Miami, FL. Qualifiers throughout the world have produced an elite field of young men and women aged 16-20 to face off in the two-person foiling Flying Phantom catamaran, capable of reaching speeds up to 35 knots. Full report.


You asked for it! You got it! NAU Country introduces our new Financial Account Viewer. This enhancement was requested specifically by agents, like you. The Financial Account Viewer enhancements allow you the ability to self-service your insureds and provide the excellent customer service they deserve. Information from billing to indemnity amounts to financial documents will all be available for you to access! Find out more here.
Acreage reporting is in full swing and for many, getting those acres keyed into EASYwriter Pro® (EWP) is nearly done. Now it's time to utilize the new features implemented into Field Insights to maintain those crops.
Acreage reporting has not changed! The farmer provides the acreage information to you. Once you key the acreage information into EWP, whether through Map Entry or Quick FTF, and then commit the policy, that acreage information will automatically transfer to the associated field in Field Insights for that policy.
In addition to this, any edits made to the field, like adding a pivot or splitting a field, will also update the applicable field within Field Insights as well!
Please note, once the above selections are made, they will roll from year to year for the applicable field and will not change unless manually changed.
When creating a Standalone Crop-Hail quote from an MPCI policy, we have now added the ability to add the Cash Flag through the wizard. You can access the "Create Standalone Hail Quote" by selecting the "Edit" menu and then "Create Standalone Hail Quote" from within a MPCI policy quote.
The EASYquote Quick Edit window has been updated so you can now change the share percent on all lines or on selected lines. To update all lines, a new Share entry box has been added to the bottom of the window under the Acres entry box. Enter in your share percent and click "update", and all lines will automatically update with your new share percent. To only mass update the Share, you can clear out the Acres entry box.
We have added an "Agent" filter in the Report Parameters window for the Missing APH and Missing Acreage reports. You are now able to filter these report results by Agent.
The Renewal Packet in the Document dropdown of Batch Print Manager and Policy Document Manager has been added to the Sales Closing Category.


Whether alone, with your family or your friends, Brasserie Restaurant L'Ardennais will let you discover a traditional and typical Ardennes cuisine prepared with fresh ingredients in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
Whether alone, with your family or your friends, Brasserie Restaurant L'Ardennais will let you discover a traditional and typical Ardennes cuisine prepared with fresh ingredients in a warm and friendly atmosphere, and if weather permits, on the shaded terrace.
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Date: 13th April 2011
ClearView short-listed in CIR Awards 2011
ClearView is short-listed in the best Business Continuity Management Software category in the 2011 CIR Awards in its first submission.
13th April 2001 - Following the formal launch of the latest version of its BCM software, ClearView is delighted that its success has been recognised by being shortlisted in the prestigious CIR Awards in the Business Continuity Management Planning Software of the Year category. As a platform which is gaining market acclaim for its ease of use underpinned by a powerful and robust, dynamic application, this latest success is very much welcomed.
The Business Continuity Awards recognise excellence within the field of business continuity and operational risk management and will be presented at the Gala Dinner, which will be held at the Park Lane Hilton on Wednesday 25 May 2011
More details of the Awards can be found at www.businesscontinuityawards.com
For further information visit www.clearview-continuity.com
Ruth Crabb, Marketing Manager
Email: ruth.crabb[at]clearview-continuity[dot]com


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MOSCOW, August 15. /TASS/. The implementation of the idea to seize additional revenue from metallurgical and chemical companies in Russia may affect the profitability of these enterprises indicated in the survey, the international rating Agency Fitch.
"Tax initiative for metallurgical and chemical companies that reportedly considered by the government of Russia is likely to weigh on profitability and will reduce available cash flow," Fitch ratings says.
According to the Agency, the increase in the tax burden may force the company to cut dividend payments, reduce capital costs or to increase leverage (the ratio of borrowed and own capital).
At the same time, the initiative will reduce the disparity in the tax burden on oil and gas companies and the mining of other natural resources and increase revenues to the state budget, pointing to Fitch.
To withdraw from metallurgical and chemical companies 513,7 billion rubles of additional revenue earlier proposed by the Russian presidential aide Andrei Belousov in the letter to Vladimir Putin. Funds can be allocated for the implementation of the may decree of the President, said Belousov.
He recalled that the implementation of these measures allowed for the last two years the budget to attract about 600 billion rubles of additional revenues of oil and gas companies – exporters obtained due to the devaluation of the ruble.
The letter indicates that in 2017 due to external market conditions in the metallurgical, chemical, petrochemical and mining companies have received a total of more than 1.5 trillion rubles of profit before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) at a lower compared to the oil and gas sector tax burden.
In the list of companies that have requested to withdraw additional income fell, in particular, NLMK, Severstal, MMK, Mechel, metalloinvest, Evraz, Norilsk Nickel, ALROSA, Polyus, SIBUR, Uralkali, PhosAgro and others.
According to estimates of the Russian Union of Industrialists and entrepreneurs (RSPP), the capitalization of stock market of the Russian Federation as a result of these measures may fall by 3 trillion rubles. The Union also warned that the initiative Belousova will have a negative impact on the investment attractiveness of the country.


These moist muffins are filled with sweet cherries and have a lovely almond scent.
Preheat oven to 425F/220C. Butter 12 muffin cups or line with liner papers.
In a large bowl, sift together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. Add sugar and mix to combine.
In a medium bowl, mix egg with yogurt, oil, vanilla, and almond extract. Pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and fold with a wooden spoon or rubber spatula just until combined. Do not over mix. The batter should be quite thick and lumpy. Fold in almonds and cherries gently to prevent staining.
Divide the mixture between the muffin cups, filling almost fully to the top. Sprinkle with sliced almonds if desired. Bake for 3 minutes, then reduce the oven temperature to 375F/190C. Continue to bake for an additional 12-17 minutes for standard muffins, or an additional 22-27 minutes for jumbo muffins. They are ready when a toothpick inserted into the center of a muffin comes out clean. If they start to brown too much, cover them loosely with aluminum foil. Cool for 10 minutes, then move to a wire rack to cool completely.
Muffins are best the same day they are made, but can be kept at room temperature in an airtight container for an additional 1-2 days. Muffins can also be frozen for up to 2 months.
*If you don't have almond extract, you can leave it out and have delicious cherry muffins instead.
**Refer to the above post for more information about frozen and dried cherries, and how to prevent cherries form bleeding into the batter.


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The Guardian launches n0tice, an open community news platform
"In many ways they've created a new kind of social platform, or a really really old one reinvented for the new world."
By Megan Garber @megangarber Oct. 26, 2011, 2:30 p.m.
One of the most common complaints about newspapers' adaptation to the digital world — or, depending on your perspective, their lack thereof — is their failure to create their own versions of Craigslist. Papers ceded the market of micro-marketing, the complaint goes…when, with a bit of foresight, they might have built platforms that might have preserved, at least to an extent, their all-important classified revenue streams.
So goes the argument. But it doesn't follow that, in 2011, Craigslist has completely cornered the market on classified advertising — or, for that matter, on community messaging overall. Today, a major paper is getting into the community messaging game: The Guardian is launching n0tice, a social news platform that draws a little from Craigslist, a little from Foursquare, a little from Ning.
"It's a place where you can share news, post details about forthcoming events or let people know you have something to sell or share," the project's FAQ puts it. Just like IRL message boards, "everyone else in your locality will be able to see what you've posted and also take part."
n0tice — which is, for the moment, still in private beta — is citizen-driven: It allows people the ability to create their own noticeboards (er, n0ticeboards) about whatever topics and events they want. As Matt McAlister, the Guardian's director of digital strategy, notes in a blog post announcing n0tice's live beta, users can customize the branding, the overall aesthetic, and even the subdomain of their particular noticeboards. And "we'll also give you options to customize the content using some filters like following people, tags and locations, though that feature is still being developed."
The team will soon expose n0tice's read API, as well. Mutualization!
n0tice is Craiglistfully easy to use: When you go to the site, it will first detect whether you're coming from a mobile device. (It was designed for the iPhone first, McAlister notes, but has a desktop version, as well.) Once you agree to location-reading permissions, the site will grab your latitude and longitude — using the Google Maps geocoder and Yahoo's geo services — and then show you what's recently been published to n0tice near your location.
As McAlister sees it, he told me in a phone call this afternoon, n0tice is simply the next step in the long evolution of community news — a step that makes particular sense for an increasingly mobile world. As he explained in his post:
In the 1980's and 90's the dial-up online bulletin board systems or BBS's made the noticeboard concept come alive in the digital space based on what technology was available at the time. Email enabled mailing lists that acted like noticeboards. And, of course, the web and Netscape made browsable noticeboards possible in digital space, such as Craigslist.
But few models for community noticeboards have taken off in a social-local-mobile world, so far.
So n0tice is news for the SoLoMo space. It was born, appropriately enough, at a 2009 hack day, and inspired in its development by, among other projects, Ushahidi and Google's News Near You. The n0tice team — including Daniel Levitt, of the Guardian's Open Platform, and Sarah Hartley — is, overall, thinking about the what's next in civic information. Blending technologies, from social to mobile, is a big part of that. "In many ways," McAlister notes, "they've created a new kind of social platform, or a really really old one reinvented for the new world."
Another intriguing element: n0tice's business model. The platform is free for users ("there's no cost to browse around, post news or events or even place a small ad. nothing, zero, zilch") and ad-supported. Standard stuff. Where it gets interesting, though: "Featured positions are sold based on region size and duration so, as an example, if you want to be certain of premium position on all pages displayed within a one mile radius the cost is £1 per day."
In other words, as McAlister puts it, n0tice is taking "a space and time" approach to advertising. Which is one that makes, on a location-based platform, a world of sense.
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Today's Geo Quiz --- is jammin'. There's a place in Central Europe where you can find homemade jams like no other. They're made by Romanian women in a handful of villages that date back to the 13th century. These villages lie in the shadow of the Carpathian Mountains in a historic region of what is now Romania. Generations of women here have made fresh jams from locally grown rhubarb, wild strawberries, and sour cherries: "It's a rich flavor it's quite unusual, quite tart, not as sweet as perhaps the jams we are used to, not as thick but it certainly has a rural and very wild flavor to it." These wild jams are on a list of so called "endangered foods". They're delicacies that are vanishing from dinner tables and local markets. More about that list when we reveal the answer. For now try and name this Central European region where you can still find wild cherry preserves like the kind your great, great, great grandmother used to make... Some of the world's most endangered foods are on the menu for today's Geo Quiz. They're being served at an unusual banquet in Newcastle, England tomorrow night. The menu features ten ingredients from around the world from the "Slow Food" Ark of Taste list, the "endangered species" of the food world. These are artisan foods that are now made by just a small handful of producers, such as wild Ethiopian coffee, Irish raw milk cheese, Hungarian mangalica sausage from woolly pigs, or a famous Spanish delicacy Ballobar capers. The menu also includes the traditional jams made from berries and fruit we asked you about in our Geo Quiz. It's made in several Saxon villages in the historic region of Transylvania. Transylvania, Romania is the answer. The complete international list of "endangered foods" The United States list is here It includes fruits such as American Heirloom Apples, Blenheim Apricot, Puebla Avocado, and Bronx Grapes and spices and herbs such as Traditional Sea Salt from Hawaii (Alaea), Desert Oregano, and Handmade File. Listen to our interview with Simon Preston who's designed a 10-course feast called: "Ten Things To Eat Before They Die." "Ten Things to Eat before they Die": * Lancashire asparagus: The Formby crop is down to a few farmers after the loss of the transatlantic liner market. * Herdwick mutton: Staunchly produced since Beatrix Potter's day but confined to the Lake District. * Ballobar capers: Introduced to the Aragon region of Spain by the Moors but long since gone wild. Costly to harvest and outpriced by Andalusian and Moroccan rivals. * Huehuetenango highland coffee: From Guatemala. Needs forest shade and laborious depulping and bean-raking for its famed flavour. * Raw milk cow's cheese: Traditional process reintroduced by Irish artisan producers in the 1970s to international acclaim, but a small market. * Herat raisins: Known since the fourth century AD but the 120 varieties are struggling against Afghanistan's disruption and more lucrative crops such as poppies. * Perry pear juice: Unsuited to mass production and now limited to Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire. * Imraguen mullet botarga: Mauretanian caviar confined to the Banc d'Arguin national park, whose nomads with motorless boats are the only people permitted to fish there. * Saxon village preserves: Based on berries and other fruits from Transylvania, made by Romanian women to supplement low farming incomes. * Saint Flour golden lentils: Thin skins absorb sauces well but livestock has taken over much of the French land used in its early 20th century heyday.
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Champions League Final 2005 Liverpool were down 3-0 at half time to AC Milan. The team and fans were in despair after progressing all the way to final. However the tides changed in the second half when Gerrard's header rallied the team to pull off what has become known as the 'Miracle of Istanbul'.
Gerrard's performance that night is arguable his best ever performance and his most important goal is commemorated in this Captain Fantastic – Liverpool T-Shirt. You also can choose the t-shirt colour from black, grey, navy and white.


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Proposed rule extends big bank liquidity demands
A busy day for bank regulators on Tuesday led to proposed rules dealing with new liquidity requirements, incentive-based compensation, and the way small banks are assessed for deposit insurance.
A "Net Stable Funding rule," proposed by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, would require the largest banks to hold sufficient liquid assets to endure a year-long funding crisis. Described by Comptroller of the Currency Thomas Curry as "one piece of a broader effort to increase the resiliency of the banking system," the rule will work in concert with the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) rule issued in September 2014.
The LCR rule required covered institutions to hold "high-quality liquid assets equal to their net cash outflows" over a 30-day period. The new rule would go further, requiring covered institutions to have sources of funding that are stable over a one-year period. Like the liquidity rule, the proposed rule would cover depository institutions with more than $250 billion in total consolidated assets or $10 billion in foreign exposure. It would also cover depository institutions with more than $10 billion in total consolidated assets that are subsidiaries of large holding companies, large depository institutions, and non-banks designated as systemically important by the Financial Stability Oversight Council.
The rule proposal follows a decision by the Federal Reserve earlier this month to include general obligation state and municipal securities in the range of assets large banks may use to satisfy liquidity requirements. While the LCR rule did not initially include investment grade U.S. municipal securities as "high quality liquid assets," a subsequent analysis by the Federal Reserve, codified in an April 1 rule, determined that they "have liquidity characteristics similar to other HQLA classes, such as corporate debt securities." The rule, which applies only to institutions supervised by the Federal Reserve and subject to the LCR requirement, is effective on July 1, 2016.
Also on Tuesday, the OCC and FDIC signed onto a proposed rule intended to align employee incentives with the long-term interests and safety and soundness of covered financial institutions.
Last week, moving forward with a Dodd-Frank Act mandate, the National Credit Union Administration re-proposed a stalled 2011 rule proposal targeting incentive-based executive pay that encourages inappropriate risks at banks and credit unions. The proposed rules—which also apply to investment advisers, broker-dealers, and mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—would impose new clawback provisions, enhance compensation-related disclosures, and require executives and "significant risk takers" to defer as much as 60 percent of their incentive-based pay for up to four years.
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Jonas Malheiro Savimbi ('O Mais Velho')
Place of Birth: Munhango
Died: 22/02/2002
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Jonas Savimbi's death was greeted with joy in Namibia where the governing South West African People's Organisation has extremely close ties to the Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola government...
The last elections were in 1992: President José Eduardo dos Santos was ahead in the first round of the presidential polls but his rival Jonas Savimbi led his troops back to war before a second round could be held...
Later rather than sooner
In May Dos Santos made seemingly pragmatic statements (AC Vol 42 No 11) about opening lines to his enemy Jonas Savimbi of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola...
Bitter borders
For ten years Chiluba's government has tolerated trade between Jonas Savimbi's UNITA and Zambian business people especially arms suppliers and fuel dealers...
However several of the MMD's leading business supporters have worked with UNITA and Jonas Savimbi in the past...
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The main leadership contenders maintain a low profile but SWAPO members will have liked Foreign Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab's recent suggestion that Angolan rebel leader Jonas Savimbi and Caprivi secessionist leader Mishake Muyongo (exiled in Denmark) should be in the same international terrorist category as those responsible for the 11 September outrages...
Luanda wants to move ahead with the Lusaka accord so it can reduce its military commitments in Congo-K and devote more to fighting Jonas Savimbi's rebels at home...
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The United States calling for 'no talks with terrorists' still wants to prod President José Eduardo dos Santos towards talks with Jonas Savimbi's União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola rebels (AC Vol 42 No 17); UNITA's old friends in George W...
Dodgy dinars
He also claims he saw fake Angolan kwanzas being printed allegedly ordered by rebel leader Jonas Savimbi on a visit to the factory...
Waiting for the call
But like Jonas Savimbi of the União Nacional para a Independência Total de Angola he faces retribution after he loses office and he likes to keep his opponents off guard...
Who blinks first?
Rebel leader Jonas Savimbi has a cruel sense of timing...
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I read an article recently all about who should pay for the reasons in adjudicators' decisions. Cliff Wakefield, the author, argued that some adjudicators go too far, and write too much, and that their long-windedness costs the parties (usually the losing party) a disproportionate amount of money. He suggested that perhaps it is time that parties started asking adjudicators to limit the number of pages in their decisions. Alternatively, the party asking for reasons should agree to pay for those reasons, regardless of the outcome of the adjudication.
I began to wonder what the point of reasons is? Why do parties want (and expect) reasons, and why is it that the Scheme for Construction Contracts 1998 makes reasons optional (paragraph 22)?
To enable the parties to understand what the adjudicator has decided and why.
To ensure the adjudicator has decided all the essential elements of the parties' dispute.
To assist the court in determining whether the adjudicator's decision is valid and should be enforced.
How detailed should reasons be?
I think the answer to this is subjective. It depends on the issues you are considering. Some issues require more explanation than others (and you only have to look at the parties' submissions, to see that they too spend longer on some issues, and that length of submissions is not always related to the value of those items or issues).
That said, Jackson J said an adjudicator only had to include "a brief statement" of his reasoning. More recently, Akenhead J indicated (in Balfour Beatty v Shepherd Construction) that an adjudicator's reasons should be "intelligible so that parties, objectively, can know what the adjudicator has decided and why". He also suggested they should be "expressed simply". If the reasons are not coherent, that would not be a reasoned decision, but that doesn't mean the reasons cannot be "repetitve, diffuse or even ambiguous".
I think that all translates to short and easy to understand.
Who should pay for the reasons?
I struggle with the idea that one party should be responsible for the cost of the adjudicator giving reasons, regardless of the outcome of the adjudication. After all, both parties will rely on those reasons when they look at the decision. The adjudicator's reasons may be the thing that tips the balance between a party challenging a decision and not challenging it; of paying up or continuing to fight.
However, there is some merit in adjudicators refraining from writing "War and Peace" when something so much shorter will suffice. I think only they can know what that is, and being told to keep the reasons to X pages is neither helpful or necessary.
I am glad we have not reached the technology stage that words written can be read out (perhaps it has) but for sure its great that they cannot be sung out! Even in a karaoke situation I would not like to attempt the song.
I think reasons should be mandatory on all decisions for the reasons stated. Not to do this could (as many do) have the parties scratching their heads and wondering how the adjudicator's thought process was and how they came to a specific decision. In addition, a decision that is too brief will give parties the opportunity to criticise an adjudicator, the adjudication process and complain bitterly about any fees.
Pertinent wording is required and it should take what it takes to explain a decision. You are right and, as usual, I agree with you.


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Changing the Constitution: why does Zelensky talk about it?
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Recently, the President's representative in Parliament Ruslan Stefanchuk talked about the need for changes in the Constitution. If not in general, then at least in the section on rights and freedoms. The restoration of the Constitutional Commission was also announced. Read further whether there is a need for such changes, how it should happen, and whether the main law of Ukraine is indeed somewhat outdated.
Does the section of the Constitution of Ukraine on rights and freedoms require changes?
Dmytro Sinchenko, the head of the public organization Association of Political Sciences, insists on the need for changes since the Constitution was created by people who grew up in the Soviet Union and were "infected with communist ideas". In the end, this was reflected in the main law of our country.
"These provisions often hinder the needed reforms, despite the fact that they have never been implemented in practice. This applies, for example, to "free" housing, "free" education, "free" medicine, the prohibition to reduce the network of medical institutions, the right to education in minority languages in public institutions, etc. All these things create a huge burden on the budget and have never been fully financed, all these points have always been violated, and no one took responsibility for the violations. It's time to finally admit that nothing is free."
Andrii Martynov, the doctor of historical Sciences, calls the desire to amend the Constitution "a national kind of political sport". But the section that Zelensky's team plans to change initially, according to the expert, is one of the best.
"But the Constitutional Court did not guard the rights and freedoms of citizens. In particular, restrictions of constitutional rights and freedoms of citizens by normative legislative acts have become a political and legal practice, in fact since 1996. Perhaps the version of changes by the Servant of the People is about the virtualization of state functions, the so-called "state in a smartphone", which fits into the libertarian stereotypes of party's ideologists. But any changes to the section on rights and freedoms require a referendum as a final tool for approving the changes. And there is no law on the constitutional referendum."
The Executive Director of the Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union in 2004-2012, Volodymyr Yavorsky, agreed in a comment to Human Rights Center ZMINA with the need to change the section but stressed that all editions should be discussed publicly.
"I do not believe that our Constitution is advanced in this regard. For example, we do not have the principle of proportionality and necessity in restricting rights and freedoms. There are many shortcomings in wordings and limitations that are contrary to international law. The passed Constitutional Commission seems to have completed the preparation of amendments to this section. Obviously, these changes require public discussion, since the final version of these changes has not been published."
The expert also assured that the wording of the social and economic human rights in the modern version of the Constitution of Ukraine is actually declarative.
"The Ukrainian Constitution of the Soviet-style as a whole has many impracticable declarations, but this also applies to the first section. It is also important to reform the human rights protection system, for example by establishing thematic ombudsmen. In many countries, there are ombudsmen for the protection of personal data and information, protection against discrimination, children's rights, etc."
Maryna Bahrova, a member of the board of the international union Institute of National Policy, in turn, is convinced that the main requirement for the initiators of the changes is to prevent the deterioration of the rights of Ukrainians.
"In other words, the volume of human and civil rights and freedoms ordered in the Constitution of Ukraine cannot be reduced under any circumstances. This is the legal position of the Constitutional Court and the ECHR, and various international institutions."
Oleksii Buriachenko, a political expert and the chairman of the board of the Regional Expert-Legal Association of Influence, explained that a number of articles from the section mentioned by Stefanchuk, are either not implemented at all, or only partially.
"The example of the inability of the state to ensure the obligations enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine to its citizens that is the most resonant and "fresh" in memory is the absolutely ineffective state policy aimed at providing social guarantees for internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the territory of separate districts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts and the annexed Crimea, not to mention the low level of pension and social security of disabled and elderly people."
So, is there a need for more global changes?
According to Dmytro Sinchenko, certain provisions should be radically revised indeed. First of all, according to the expert, it is necessary to abandon socialism in the law, to provide for equality of rights and obligations, but to remove the free things, for example, free medicine.
"This will allow us to complete medical and other reforms, radically reduce the functions of the state, thereby reducing the cost of its maintenance, significantly reducing the number of officials, and also significantly reducing taxes, which will automatically raise the income of each citizen and reduce prices for everything.
Secondly, I would make the system of governance of our state more effective, in particular – I would make the President the head of the executive branch – the government. Paradoxically, the President, who is considered responsible for everything in the country and the head of the executive power, in fact, does not have such powers. The President who heads the government is the elimination of dualism of power and duplication of functions.
Third, I would change the electoral qualification. Today, citizens of Ukraine who have reached the age of 18 have the right to vote in elections. The upper boundary of the electoral qualification does not exist. In my deep conviction, this approach is not relevant for our country and hinders its development."
Oleksii Buriachenko stresses the need to review and update the law to modern socio-economic realities.
"In many ways, the current Constitution is purely declarative in nature without relevant thematic references or sanctions explanations. As a result, we have, in many ways, a declarative Constitution, which sometimes is not correlated with the laws and regulations."
Also, the political expert notes that the libertarianism declared by Stefanchuk as the ideological basis of the Servant of the People in many respects does not correspond to the provisions of the current Constitution.
"Left-wing or center-left views in the interpretation of politicians of that time spoke about the socially-oriented state with appropriate guarantees of state support, both for the vulnerable segments of the population (pensions, subsidies), and the provision of a wide range of free social benefits for ALL, from kindergarten to health care, from free housing to higher education and as a result – decent employment.
Libertarianism, as one of the branches of liberal ideology, speaks about minimizing the functions of the state, reducing the state apparatus and maximizing the deregulation of the economy with the introduction of instruments of its self-regulation. Such a model can be effective and give the country a significant economic impetus for development, but only if several basic conditions are met: the stability of the basic state institutions, including the judicial branch, the absence of corruption in public authorities and local self-government, economic competition + effective antimonopoly policy.
Stefanchuk spoke about political changes of the current Constitution specifically for the change of an economic course in the state. After all, failure to comply with the above principles automatically entails an economic imbalance in the country due to the increase in the shadow sector of the economy and the inability of the state to be responsible for its socio-economic obligations to citizens enshrined in the Constitution of Ukraine."
How should the amendments be adopted and what is the role of the Constitutional Commission?
Dmytro Sinchenko is convinced that the only legal mechanism for amending the Constitution is the one prescribed in the law. The expert calls any other way the usurpation of power.
"As of today, there is no other legal mechanism for amendments to the Constitution, in addition, which is spelled out in the current Constitution. Therefore, any attempt to circumvent this mechanism should be perceived only as usurpation of power. If you go the legal way, as practice shows, it is always limited to political statements and ends with nothing. It was so in cases of both Yushchenko, Kuchma, and others."
Andrii Martynov stresses the need for consultation on the changes with the Venice Commission.
"Ukraine, as a member of the Council of Europe, should consult with the Venice Commission on amendments to certain sections of the Constitution, or the Constitution as a whole. And such changes do not add to Ukraine's image of a stable rule-of-law state, where the rule of law dominates, and not political expediency."
Maryna Bahrova assures that any changes to the basic law of the country should be brought to the level of broad public discussion, among the scientific legal community, political forces and citizens in general.
"At the same time, no political force has the right to independently, in isolation from other political forces and a wide range of public, make changes to the fundamental foundations of the Constitution, using its political advantage. All Ukrainian society and all its best representatives have the right to make decisions on human and citizen's rights only after a broad public discussion."
Oleksii Buriachenko believes that first of all, the initiative to restore the Constitutional Commission and adopt the law "On referendum" should be reviewed, as they "work" in conjunction.
"These initiatives are absolutely interrelated because the Constitutional Commission is a consultative body under the President of Ukraine and the main purpose of its creation "is the development of agreed proposals for amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine".
Does Ukraine need a law "On referendum"? 100% yes, because the referendum is one of the forms of expression of will and an effective tool of "direct democracy", as, by the way, repeatedly stressed by representatives of Ze team. And, yes, the instruments of direct democracy, such as the referendum, absolutely "lie" within the concept of libertarianism, offered by Mr. Stefanchuk.
But everyone needs to understand the "reverse side of the medal", if you often use the tools of "direct democracy" over time, the model of "representative democracy" will become ineffective, and this already has certain risks of rapprochement with the institution of "relative anarchy" and a critical distance from the institution of "socially-oriented state" enshrined in the current Constitution of Ukraine."
The Constitutional Commission, according to the expert, can perform several functions at once: from the creation of a universal dialogue platform and the subject of receiving international grant aid to the instrument of lobbying the implementation of the desired changes.
"It is very convenient, also from the perspective of political responsibility, to announce certain changes in the Constitution from such a multisubject high institute as a Constitutional Commission. Also, it should be noted that it is the Constitutional Commission that can submit draft amendments to the Constitution to the European Commission "Democracy through Law" (Venice Commission) for obtaining an appropriate expert opinion.
Therefore, considering the above-mentioned facts, it can be stated that the activities of the Constitutional Commission, as a special subsidiary (advisory) body under the President of Ukraine, is aimed at legitimizing the initiatives of the President of Ukraine to make the desired changes to the Constitution of Ukraine".
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